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Select Magazine No. 4 is a collection of interviews and documentation of media arts in Chicago

Amid the neoliberal transformation of Chicago--which extends capitalist market domination into every sphere, and substitutes competition and consumption for solidarity and social justice--the editors felt an urgent need to reclaim, rebuild, and redefine public space. The publication documents a period of cultural activism in Chicago stretching from 2000 to 2005, and covers various projects and organizations that responded to neoliberal restructuring. Topics include collective infrastructures, protest experiments, gentrification, public housing, and urban planning. (Adapted from introduction.)

Color photos taken in Chicago near Union Park

Color street photography taken in Chicago's Ukrainian Village

Color photos taken in Chicago

Color photography taken on, below and near Bloomingdale Trail in Chicago

Color photos taken in Bay Area

Color photographs taken in Indianapolis

Color photos taken in Barcelona by Chicago artist

"We invited Chicago graffiti artists to consider various architectural spaces, and ask themselves, 'What would you do here?' A careful edit from my portraits of residential, commercial, hospitality corporate and street scenes provide the canvass for the response. The end result is a compilation that delves a bit deeper into questions about graffiti's place in the world at large.